Since 2020, Sri Lanka has experienced a worsening economic and political crisis. Poor decision-making of the political leadership is one of the key leading reasons. Often personal interests have influenced those decisions. Sri Lanka has witnessed several waves of youth and citizen uprisings throughout its post-independence history. These uprisings have been responses to grave injustices, human rights violations, and self-serving political choices made by those who have been exercising power. Following the end of the war in 2009, the Tamil citizens in the north and east of the country have been demanding for their equal rights, justice, and accountability. In more recent times, starting from 2021, the people in the South of Sri Lanka have also begun to experience repression by the state as a response to the island-wide people’s protests demanded for basic needs, which later progressed into a civic movement. Individuals and groups with different ideologies, backgrounds and identities became part of the 2022 people’s movement exercising and demanding the sovereign power of the people. Citizens X Core emerges in such a background and we identify the importance of mobilizing diverse groups including women, youth, minorities and marginalized groups as a collective pressure group to stand for the sovereignty and democracy of the country. X Core stands on key three pillars which are also recognized in the Constitution of Sri Lanka for people to enjoy and exercise: Governance, Rights and Franchise